Selected Publications

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Understanding nutrient and cyanobacterial bloom dynamics and options to manage them

de Toledo, M. B., & Baulch, H. M. (2024). A landscape limnology approach to assessing controls on soluble reactive phosphorus in sediment porewater and internal loading risk. Science of The Total Environment, 953, Article 176012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176012

de Toledo, M. B., & Baulch, H. M. (2023). Variability of sediment phosphorus composition across Canadian lakes. Environmental Research, 236(1), Article 116654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116654

Spence, D. S., Baulch, H. M., & Lloyd-Smith, P. (2023). Collaborative valuation of ecosystem services to inform lake remediation. Environmental Science & Policy, 150, Article 103595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103595

Molot, L. A., Schiff, S. L., Venkiteswaran, J. J., Baulch, H. M., Higgins, S. N., Zastepa, A., Verschoor, M. J., & Walters, D. (2021). Low sediment redox promotes cyanobacteria blooms across a trophic range: implications for management. Lake and Reservoir Management, 16(6), Article 64078. https://doi.org/10.1080/10402381.2020.1854400
*winner of the Jim LaBounty Best Paper Award for Lake and Reservoir Management, 2021

Molot, L. A., Higgins, S. N., Schiff, S. L., Venkiteswaran, J. J., Paterson, M. J., & Baulch, H. M. (2021). Phosphorus-only fertilization rapidly initiates large nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria blooms in two oligotrophic lakes. Environmental Research Letters, 16(6), Article 064078. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0564

Larsen, M. L., Baulch, H. M., Schiff, S. L., Simon, D. F., Sauve, S., & Venkiteswaran, J. J. (2020). Extreme rainfall drives early onset cyanobacterial bloom, FACETS 5(1), 899–920. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2020-0022

Climate, changing climate, and winter conditions affecting biogeochemical cycles and water quality

Contosta, A. R., Arndt, K. A., Baulch, H. M., Casson, N. J., Harpold, A., Morelli, T. L., Sirén, A. P. K., & Templer, P. H. (2024). Threshold changes in winter temperature and precipitation drive threshold responses across nine global climate zones and associated biomes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 55(1), 271–300. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110421-102101

Gilmour, K., Hoggarth, C., Williams, C., & Baulch, H. (2022). Cold spots and cold moments: the potential for sediment freezing to depress denitrification in wetland sediments. Journal of Environmental Quality, 51, 990–1002. https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1002/jeq2.20384

Cavaliere, E., & Baulch. H. (2020). Winter in two phases: Long-term study of a shallow reservoir in winter. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(4), 1335–1352. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11687

Cavaliere, E., & Baulch, H. M. (2020). Winter nitrification in ice-covered lakes. PLoS One, 14(11), Article e0224864. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224864

Agricultural landscapes, ecosystem services, and water quality

Liu, J., Lobb, D. A., Elliott, J. A., Macrae, M. L., Baulch, H. M., & Costa, D. (2024). The potential to reduce runoff generation through improving cropping and tillage practices in a sub-humid continental climate. Climate Smart Agriculture, Article 100021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csag.2024.100021

Costa, D., Pomeroy, J. W., Brown, T., Baulch, H., Elliott, J., & Macrae, M. (2021). Advances in the simulation of nutrient dynamics in cold climate agricultural basins: Developing new nitrogen and phosphorus modules for the Cold Regions Hydrological Modelling Platform. Journal of Hydrology, 603, Part A, Article 126901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126901

Liu, J., Elliott, J. A., Wilson, H. F., Macrae, M. L., Baulch, H. M., & Lobb, D. A. (2021). Phosphorus runoff from Canadian agricultural land: A cross-region synthesis of edge-of-field results. Agricultural Water Management, 255, Article 107030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107030

Bennett, E. M., Baird, J., Baulch, H, & 18 others. (invited). (2021). Ecosystem services and the resilience of agricultural landscapes. Advances in Ecological Research, 64, 1–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2021.01.001

Costa, D., Baulch, H., Elliott, J., Pomeroy, J., & Wheater, H. (2020). Modelling nutrient dynamics in cold agricultural catchments: A review. Environmental Modelling & Software, 124, Article 104586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104586

Liu, J., Baulch, H. M., Macrae, M. L., Wilson, H. F., Elliott, J. A., Bergström, L., Glenn, A. J., & Vadas, P. A. (2019). Agricultural water quality in cold climates: Processes, drivers, management options, and research needs. Journal of Environmental Quality, 48(4), 792–802. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2019.05.0220

Liu, J., Elliott, J., Baulch, H., Macrae, M. L., Wilson, H. & Kleinman, P. J. A. (2019). Impacts of cover crops and crop residues on phosphorus losses in cold climates: A review. Journal of Environmental Quality, 48, 850–868. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2019.03.0119

Baulch, H. M., Elliott, J. A., Cordeiro, M. R. C., Flaten, D. N., Lobb, D. A., & Wilson, H. F. (2019). Soil and water management: Opportunities to mitigate nutrient losses to surface waters in the Northern Great Plains. Environmental Reviews, 27(4), 447–477. https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2018-0101

Liu, J., Elliott, J., Wilson, H., & Baulch, H. (2019). Impacts of soil phosphorus drawdown on snowmelt and rainfall runoff water quality. Journal of Environmental Quality, 48, 803–812. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2018.12.0437

Wetlands, wetland management and drainage

Whitfield, C., Cavaliere, E., Baulch, H., Clark, R., Spence, C., Shook, K., He, Z., Pomeroy, J., & Wolfe, J. (2024). An integrated assessment of impacts to ecosystem services associated with prairie pothole wetland drainage quantifying wide-ranging losses. FACETS, 9, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2023-0207

Baulch, H., Whitfield, C., Wolfe, J., Basu, N., Bedard-Haughn, A., Belcher, K., Clark, R., Ferguson, G., Hayashi, M., & Ireson, A. (2021). Synthesis of science: findings on Canadian Prairie wetland drainage. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 46, 229–241. https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1080/07011784.2021.1973911

Loring, P. A., Harrison, H. L., Gaspard, V., Minnes, S., & Baulch, H. M. (2021). Science, data, and the struggle for standing in environmental governance. Society & Natural Resources, 34(12), 1584–1601. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2021.1979150

Minnes, S., Gaspard, V., Loring, P. A., Baulch, H., & Breen, S -P. (2020). Transforming conflict over natural resources: A socio-ecological systems analysis of agricultural drainage, FACETS, 5(12), 864–886. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2020-0031

Breen, S.-P. W., Loring, P. A., & Baulch, H. (2018). When a water problem Is more than a water problem: Fragmentation, framing, and the case of agricultural wetland drainage. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00129

Changing sourcewater quality and adaptation for drinking water

Baron, A. P., Baulch, H., Nazemi, A., Whitfield, C. J. Novel statistical analysis illustrates importance of flow source for extreme variation in dissolved organic carbon in a eutrophic reservoir in the Great Plains. (preprint in review in HESS: https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024/egusphere-2024-1503/)

Painter, K., Venkiteswaran, J. J., & Baulch, H. (2023). Blooms and flows: Effects of variable hydrology and management on reservoir water quality. Ecosphere, 14(3), Article e4472. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4472

Painter, K. J., Venkiteswaran, J. J., Simon, D. F., Duy, S. V., Sauvé, S., & Baulch, H. (2022). Early and late cyanobacterial bloomers in a shallow, eutrophic lake. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 24(8), 1212–1227. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EM00078D

Williams, C. J., Conrad, D., Kothawala, D. N., & Baulch, H. M. (2019). Selective removal of dissolved organic matter affects the production and speciation of disinfection byproducts. The Science of the Total Environment, 652, 75–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.184

Greenhouse gas emissions

Jensen, S. A., Webb, J. R., Simpson, G. L., Baulch, H. M., Leavitt, P. R., & Finlay, K. (2023). Differential controls of greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, and N2O) concentrations in natural and constructed agricultural waterbodies on the Northern Great Plains. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 128, Article e2022JG007261. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG007261

Webb, J. R., Hayes, N. M., Simpson, G. L., Leavitt, P. R., Baulch, H. M., & Finlay, K. (2019). Widespread nitrous oxide undersaturation in farm waterbodies creates an unexpected greenhouse gas sink. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 116(20), 9814–9819. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820389116